THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 15 



Size medium, shoulder-lieight about 4.S inches. Horns wide- 

 spread and bracket-shaped, good horns measuring from 17 to 21 

 inches on front curve. Head comparatively short, much shorter 

 than in the Lelwel Hartebeests. Genei-al colour reddish or 

 brownish butt". 



The specimen from Yoi (No. 19. 7. 15. 75) possesses the l)est 

 horns : — length on f I'ont curve 17 ; circumference 10 ; spread from 

 tip to tip 154. 



Typical locality, Usagara, Tanganyika Territory ; range includes 

 the southern part of Kenya Colony south-west of the Tana River 

 and extends southwards into Tanganyika Territory. The Coke 

 Hartebeest found in the highlands of Kenya Colony from the eastei'n 

 slopes of Mt. Kenya and Lake Naivasha southwards to the Victoria 

 Nyanza and north-west part of Tanganyika Territory has been 

 described by Heller * as a distinct race, under the name koiiffoiii. 

 From the material at present available for examination the 

 distinctive characters attributed to this form do not seem to justify 

 such a separation, and thus the specimens shot by Selous at Simba 

 and in the Naivaslia Province are liere referred to the typical form. 



38-39 —10.7.15.71-72. January. 1903. Simba, Ulii District, 



Kenya Colony. 

 40-41 —19. 7. 15. 73-74 (females). 16 January, 1903. Simba, Ulu 



District, Kenya Colony. 



42 —19.7.15.75. 28 January, 1903. Voi, Taita and Taveta 



District, Kenya Colony. 



43 — 19. 7. 15. 76. Naivasha Province. Kenya Colony. 



NAKUllU HARTEBEEST. 



AlCELAPHUS COKET XAErR.L. 



Buhalis nahurse, Heller^ Smitlison. Misc. Collect, vol. ]x. no. 8, p. 6, 1912. 

 Biibalis col-ei naT<vrse, Lydekker & Blaine, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. 

 Mils. vol. ii. p. 16, 1914. 



Similar in size to the typical race ; distinguished by the horns 

 being less widely spread, more as in the Neumann Hartebeest, to 

 which form Selous referred his specimens in the " Catalogue of 

 Trophies. Specimens of Natural History," Worplesdon, 1903. 



The best head in the following series is No. 19. 7. 15. GJ.<, 



* Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix. no. 8, p. 5, 1912. 



